this phenomena. We read about slaves in America, Nazi Germany, and the My Lai massacre; perfect examples of dehumanization, torture, and murder. What could possibly cause someone psychologically normal to treat other human beings like vermin? The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo offers an explanation for how and why people can abandon their morals. I read the book which as much of an open mind as I could muster while reading such a hard-hitting topic. The book
the Lucifer effect involves understanding human character transformations with these three factors. And it's a dynamic interplay. What do the people bring into the situation? What does the situation bring out of them? And what is the system that creates and maintains that situation?” (Zimbardo (2008). While Zimbardo leans more of evil as being situational where good people turn evil, his examples make Freud’s explanation of human propensity for evil as being innate. Zimbardo uses the “Lucifer Effect”
Phillip Zimbardo developed the ideology of the “Lucifer effect” by producing an experiment that tested individuals’ behavior patterns as they switched roles in Stanford County prison. In this study, Zimbardo proved the negative face of humanistic ways by showing how influencing someone’s outlook on a specific role that they were given, can alter the overall behavior that they produce as a result. Zimbardo’s comment correlates to Arendt’s “Banality of Evil” because it is relative to Arendt’s mindset
the realm of psychology was conducted by Phillip Zimbardo in the 1970s to study the effects of prison conformity on a sample group of college students. This study, known as the Stanford Prison Experiment, was scheduled to continue for two weeks, but it had to be cut short to six days due to the horrendous events that occurred during procedures. Although the majority of researchers currently agree that Zimbardo’s experiment was completely unethical, it can be said that the lessons learned from the
continued to the highest level of 450 volts.” One would think that the participant wouldn’t take a life for a $5 pay, but since they wouldn’t technically be held accountable for the death per say, they felt the need to be obedient. This showing the effect of seeing a tall man in a white coat; intimidation plays a big role in obedience. If the person telling you to keep increasing the voltage wasn’t a man of power, you wouldn’t feel forced to do what he says. Regular people are not unlikely to